“They Out Thought And Out Fought A Super Power” – Social Media Reacts To Norwich v Man City

Norwich City put on the performance of a generation on Saturday evening, when they defeated a footballing super power in the shape of Manchester City.

Bank rolled by the Royal family of the United Arab Emirates, so effectively owned by a country and with the first squad to cost over £1 billion, they have an embarrassment of riches in all departments.

They have the best Head Coach in the world, Pep Guardiola and his assistants are all the best that can be hired.

Pep has the best forwards too with Raheem Sterling, arguably the Premier League’s best player (at the moment), Sergio Aguero, one of the all-time great Premier League strikers and those two are supported by Bernardo and David Silva and Kevin De Bruyne.

In defence, he has a few issues though.

I’ve never really thought that Kyle Walker was quite good enough for this team. He has always relied on his pace far too much and his passing is often wayward, as it was here.

The defensive pairing of Stones and Otamendi looked like they’d barely ever played together before and that will be something the great Pep has to work on.

There’s been plenty written about both teams over the weekend but what did the fans think?

There’s only one way to find out, let’s have a trawl through the Twittersphere…

'I will back them. I will protect them and I will not be annoyed if it is not the perfect performance. All I ask is they are brave and they have invested everything.' Great words from Farke – shows what a brilliant man manager he is #ncfc

What a bloody nice club, eh. What a bloody good team. What character to play like that with so many injuries. That's a side with real identity. Fair play to 'em. As much as it irks, any game City or Liverpool lose makes the league more interesting. #ncfc#mcfc#mancity

Not sure I’ve ever seen such a rapid improvement in a player as we are currently seeing in Todd Cantwell. Composed on the ball, breaks the lines, grafts, bags of flair & now has an end product. How much are our young players worth?! Wow ???????? #ncfc#farkeball

Loved hearing Redknapp and Hughton giving #ncfc proper credit at the end of that game. Their focus was rightly on how good Norwich were, not, as is often the case, how bad the (top six team) were. Kudos chaps.

First time for about 2yrs where City have been beaten & there was no sense that we'd been cheated by the referee, tripped up by stupid luck or anything like that. We were just outplayed by a team who were better than us on the day. Chapeau, Canaries. #MCFC

Not going to lie, i'll go to bed in a foul mood and it'll last until we next win, but we have to take defeats like that on the chin as supporters. When teams park the bus and do you it stings. When teams try to play, less so, for me anyway. Good luck to 'em. #ncfc#mcfc#mancity

Little romance in Premier League, but Norwich are all that's good about football and Life. Tiny squad built with brains not money, depleted by injuries, outthought and outfought a Super Power. Fearless. Tenacious. Tireless. May the memories their fans made today last a lifetime???? pic.twitter.com/Ikjo362EIw

Norwich laid out a new blueprint to beat Man City. All you need is a newly promoted team ravaged by injuries, a manager who looks like a professional wrestler from the 1970s, and a Finnish goal machine whose surname doubles as a Malaysian swear word.